SANDRA MENDEL FURMAN
Helping people to resolve conflict situations in a peaceful, private and cost-efficient manner.
Need help resolving family or business disputes without going to court? I can help.
Services
Family Mediation: The Mature Way to Resolve Conflicts
Life is full of disputes, I’m here to help by facilitating a process in which everyone has the opportunity in a neutral, structured, private, confidentials environment to: identify issues, discuss options, recognize the other’s interests and work towards settlement. There is a known versus an unknown outcome. Parties choose to settle on terms all can accept. Attorneys are welcome and encouraged to participate as desired/needed.
Professional Background
Areas of Practice
Labor union-management grievance mediation and arbitration; employment; EEO/discrimination; business; consumer purchases; elder care; family: divorce, companionship, property division, intra familial, never married; Probate: estate, guardianship; asset concealment; breach of fiduciary obligations.
Experience
- Panel member, National Mediation Board, FMCS, AAA, AMS
- Mediator and arbitrator, Better Business Bureau of Central Ohio
- Mediator for the State of Ohio and OCSEA/AFSCME, Local 11, AFL-CIO grievance mediation
- Arbitrator for the State of Ohio and OCSEA/AFSCME, Local 11, AFL-CIO
- Arbitrator for the Ohio State Troopers Association and the State of Ohio
- Arbitrator for FINRA (securities and broker disputes)
- State Employment Relations Board Fact finder and Conciliator
- Former consultant to the President of Columbus State Community College
- Certified mediator, Franklin and Licking County Court of Domestic Relations (Rule 16)
- Co-Mediator Franklin County Probate Court
- Coach for trainees and law students
- CLE presenter
- Hearing officer State of Ohio and AFSCME job classification appeals
MEMBERSHIPS
- Columbus Bar Association-Probate, ADR and Ethics Committees
- Central Ohio Employment and Labor Relations Association
- Ohio Mediation Association
- Association for Conflict Resolution
- American Arbitration Association (AAA)
Education
- B.A., Politics (Cum Laude), Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
- J.D., Law, Capital University, Columbus, Ohio